Three GI leaders to know this week:
1. Muhammad Sheikh, MD. Dr. Sheikh is the founding chief of the gastroenterology and hepatology program at University of California San Francisco Fresno and is a professor emeritus of clinical medicine at the university. He is also the director of the Valley Gut Club, a continuing medical education program. Before joining the Fresno campus, Dr. Sheikh was medical director of the liver transplant program at the University of California Irvine Medical Center.
2. Razvan Arsenescu, MD, PhD. Dr. Arsenescu is chief of the Atlantic Digestive Health Institute in Morristown, N.J. He is also co-director of the inflammatory bowel diseases center at Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center. He established a gut microbial transplant program at the hospital and conducts clinical research on mucosal immunology.
3. Brooks Cash, MD. Dr. Cash is chief of the division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Cash served in the U.S. Navy 24 years, practicing at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C. as its chief of gastroenterology. He serves as a professor of medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.